linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] wifi: cfg80211: Allow multiple userpsace applications to receive the same registered management frame.

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Message-ID: <0586c33fa2303dc184ef106b1d453ec2b183f45e.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Tue, 20 Jun 2023 11:00:20 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     "quentin.feraboli" <quentin.feraboli@...tathome.com>,
        davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
        pabeni@...hat.com, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] wifi: cfg80211: Allow multiple userpsace
 applications to receive the same registered management frame.

On Tue, 2023-06-20 at 10:57 +0200, quentin.feraboli wrote:
> Currently, only one application can listen to a management frame type.
> 

This is incorrect, since there's some responsibility involved when
userspace subscribes to this, and if multiple are subscribed then they
cannot all take those responsibilities.

johannes